A couple of days ago we posted a critique of the storytelling in GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, from the L.A. Times. A lot of readers disagreed. Even most of us here at TVWriter™ disagreed. So it’s with great relish that we bring y’all a different viewpoint from one of the pickiest writers on the web: (Nah Ne Nah Ne Nah Ne, LA Times!)
by The Bitter Script Reader
I really didn’t think this one was going to work.
Marvel has had such a string of hits that it’s really easy to forget just how unknown many of their franchises were to a mass audience. Iron Man and Thor had always been second-tier, Hulk was seen as damaged goods after the failure of the Ang Lee-helmed film and Captain America was a dudley-do-right whose history necessitated the first film being a period piece. There are reasons that any one of those franchises could have struggled to find an audience, to say nothing of the risk of having all those franchises feed into one film with all the heroes?